MIDDLE EAST: Death of a Guerrilla

Accompanied by a 17-year-old niece,
Palestinian Guerrilla Leader Ghassan Kanafani, 36, walked out of his
apartment in a Beirut suburb, sat down at the wheel of his Austin 1100
and turned on the ignition. The car disintegrated in a horrendous
explosion that killed the occupants and shook the neighborhood. Ten
pounds of plastique had been stuffed under the right front fender; a
hand grenade that served as detonator was wired to the ignition.

Acre-born Novelist Kanafani (Men in the Sun, That Which Remains for
You), an exile from his homeland since 1948, was an ideologist and
spokesman for the Marxist Popular...